Quotes tagged ‘saints’

“We’re on a necessary side. People I thought with all my heart were guilty turned out to be innocent, and people I thought were saints, they weren’t. That’s why you don’t go on instinct. You wait, you listen, and watch. Eventually, everyone reveals themselves.”

— Phil Alden Robinson, Robert King, Michelle King, imdb.com

“Just as every cop is a criminal. And all the sinners saints.”

— The Rolling Stones, open.spotify.com

“Well, I'm saying that the Romans raised by wolves, they see a guy turning water into wine, what do they do? They eat him. 'Cause there are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.”

— Noah Hawley, Lorne Malvo, Billy Bob Thornton, imdb.com

“Sema is permitted for the pure servants of God, because their hearts are clean. They love for the sake of God, and their anger is for God; their hearts are strong. If my swearing and shouting ever reaches the ears of a hundred-year-old unbeliever, he turns into a believer. If they lightly touch the…”

— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org

“The community of the saints is not an ‘ideal’ community consisting of perfect and sinless men and women, where there is no need of further repentance. No, it is a community which proves that it is worthy of the gospel of forgiveness by constantly and sincerely proclaiming God's forgiveness....Sancti…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“My mother and father used to take me to church in Mexico and Texas, were I used to live. The huge figures of saints and crucifixions. Religion played a big role in my life.”

— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com

“The Afro-Caribbean syncretic religions began when slaves mixed their traditional religions with Catholicism in order to camouflage them. The elements in this altar look to me like Santeria. It's a Yoruban-based religion developed in Cuba. Practitioners worship Orishas, deities that roughly correspon…”

— Katarina Wittich, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“It has in all ages been allowed that the communion of saints extends to those in paradise as well as those upon earth as they are all one body united under one Head.”

— John Wesley, amazon.com

“Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.”

— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com

“Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”

— Ayn Rand, amazon.com

“There should be a saint for impossible crushes because he or she would be prayed to A LOT.”

— Mindy Kaling, twitter.com